---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 451g"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "451g"
heading: "Preferences; veterans; timely applicants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/451g"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter VII — Exchange and Amendment of Farm Units"
---

# §451g. Preferences; veterans; timely applicants


Where there are two or more timely applicants for a farm unit on a particular project or division thereof under the provisions of this subchapter, one or more of whom is an ex-serviceman who would be entitled under the applicable statutes to a preference in making entry of farm units on such project or division, the ex-serviceman, or one of them, shall have a preference in making such exchange. Any timely applicant for an exchange under the provisions of this subchapter shall be entitled to preference over any other applicant for a farm unit on the same project or division thereof.


## Source credit

(Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 8, 67 Stat. 568.)